Earth faces unprecedented environmental challenges. Heading the list of threats is climate change, with its promise of drastic climate and environmental harm planet-wide. Unchecked, climate change, also known as global warming, threatens entire species and ecosystems, as well as large population centers, industries and economies. Other environmental priorities include the persistent problems of air and water pollution, toxic wastes, and the protection of natural resources and wildlife.

 

CPR Member Scholars work to protect the environment through research and scholarship focused on the critical policy choices confronting us today, and by devising the environmental policy approaches of tomorrow.

 

In 2006, the Center for Progressive Reform launched its Next Generation Environmental Initiative to develop ideas and resources for Congress as it takes up the important business of rebuilding the nation’s environmental protection efforts after several years of neglect. Most of the nation’s current environmental laws were crafted before some of today’s principle environmental challenges were even contemplated – global warming and endocrine disruptors, for example. The Next Generation Environmental Initiative will help lawmakers renew existing environmental statutes, and develop tightly focused laws to address more recently recognized environmental problems. Read more about the Next Generation Environmental Initiative.

 

Follow these links to learn more about CPR Member Scholars’ environmental work:

And read any of a variety of CPR Perspectives on environmental issues, including Jobs and the Environment, Environmental Enforcement, Devolution and The Takings Clause.